Apple Podcast Rankings - Canada - Documentary

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in Canada

Explore the latest data-driven rankings of the top 100 podcasts in Canada. Our comprehensive analysis covers the best Apple Podcasts across various categories, providing insights into the most popular shows, episode lengths, publication frequencies, and leading hosting services. Whether you're a podcast creator or an avid listener, find the top-ranked podcasts that everyone is tuning into right now.

Podcast charts from 12 Sep 2025

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09/12/2025

Average data

Episodes: 206

Frequency: every 245 days

Duration: 00:47:39

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. CBC (2 shows)

3. Cogeco Média (2 shows)

4. pepe&chema (2 shows)

5. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. BBC (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (9 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
2	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
5	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
6	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
7	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
10	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
13	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
14	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
15	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
16	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
18	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
19	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
20	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
21	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
22	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
23	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
24	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
25	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
26	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
27	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
28	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
29	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
30	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
31	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
32	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
33	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
34	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	36	BBC	58
35	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	189	PRX	79
36	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
37	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	164	Spotify for Podcasters	28
38	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
39	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
40	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
41	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
42	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	207	Megaphone	32
43	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
44	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
45	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
46	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	430	Acast	53
47	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
48	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
49	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1193	Acast	59
50	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
51	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
52	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
53	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
54	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
55	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
56	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
57	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	59
58	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
59	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
60	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
61	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
62	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	43	Omny Studio	53
63	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
64	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	443	Acast	74
65	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
66	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
67	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
68	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
69	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
70	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
71	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
72	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
73	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
74	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
75	Des histoires qui résonnent : le Balado des proches aidants - animé par Marina Orsini Details temporarily unavailable	Des histoires qui résonnent : le Balado des proches aidants - Animé par Marina Orsini	Society & Culture	45	Audioboom	68
76	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	373	Audion	58
77	Reflections	Accessible Media Inc.	Society & Culture	81	Simplecast	83
78	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
79	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
80	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
81	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
82	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
84	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
85	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
86	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
87	No me provoquen: Breaking the Palace	Sonoro	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	73
88	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
89	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
90	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
91	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	53
92	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
93	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
94	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
95	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
96	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
97	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	94	WideOrbit	68
98	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	269	Megaphone	32
99	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
100	The Squarepeg Podcast	Amy Richards	Society & Culture	159	Libsyn	78

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

The podcast landscape in Canada is constantly evolving, with new shows emerging and established ones climbing the ranks. Our data reveals intriguing trends in podcasting, such as the average number of episodes produced, typical episode lengths, and the most consistent publication schedules. These insights can help listeners find their next favorite podcast and give creators a deeper understanding of what resonates with their audience.

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